Gertrude
Gertrude is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. Its best rank was 22nd, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 290.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19176,300 births
- Best rank
- #22in 1906
- Since 1880
- 177,083people given the name
The story in the numbers
177,083 girls have been named Gertrude in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 6,300 births — 0.58% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 29 births in 2024, against 6,300 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 28%. It has spent 86 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 51 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Gertrude | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11,100 | |
| 1890s | 19,898 | |
| 1900s | 23,607 | |
| 1910s | 49,565 | |
| 1920s | 42,459 | |
| 1930s | 16,137 | |
| 1940s | 7,936 | |
| 1950s | 3,936 | |
| 1960s | 1,250 | |
| 1970s | 380 | |
| 1980s | 188 | |
| 1990s | 102 | |
| 2000s | 135 | |
| 2010s | 236 | |
| 2020s | 154 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Gertrude was the 37th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Gertrude
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Alphapeak 1916
- Gussiepeak 1918
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Florencepeak 1918
- Altapeak 1918
- Artiepeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.